Silver Eye Stop - Ginmeishi

Japanese: 銀目停止 - ぎんめていし

…These silver envelopes were divided into Tsuneze envelopes, Ginza envelopes, and Nakama envelopes. In May 1868 (Meiji 1), the Meiji government issued a decree abolishing the Ginme (silver-spending) system, abolishing the practice of Ginme (silver-spending) transactions and forcing them to use gold and coins instead. [Sakudo Yotaro]…

From [Rice Price]

...The main reason for this was the successive coinage increases during the Tenpo, Ansei, and Man'en periods, and the sharp rise from 1860 (Man'en 1) onwards was due to changes in the currency exchange rate accompanying the opening of the country. In May 1868 (Meiji 1), the "silver-denominated rice price" was changed to gold-denominated due to the "silver-denominated suspension order," and in 1871 it was changed from "ryo" to "yen." At the same time, the price of rice, which had been soaring, began to decline, and thus the pre-modern rice price system came to an end. [Iwahashi Masaru]...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "silver eye stop" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この包銀には常是包，銀座包，仲間包があった。1868年(明治1)5月，維新政府は銀目廃止(銀目停止)の布令を出し，銀目(銀遣い)取引の慣行は廃止となり，金遣いおよび銭遣いによるべきこととされた。【作道洋太郎】。…

【米価】より

…その主因は天保，安政，万延と続く貨幣増鋳にあり，とくに60年(万延1)以降の急騰は開国にともなう貨幣相場の変更によるものであった。68年(明治1)5月の〈銀目停止令〉により銀建米価の呼称は金建てに変更され，さらに71年には〈両〉から〈円〉に切り替えられ，同時に高騰していた米価も下降に向かうこととなって，ここに前近代的な米価体系は幕をとじた。【岩橋勝】。…

※「銀目停止」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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